Mood:
downIt has officially been one year, one month and eighteen days since I last posted. I am ending this blog, but it's not because I've run out of ideas - hell, I have three reviews all written up and ready to post.
No, the reason I'm ending this is because last month, I did something unforgivable. Something I'm not going to share with the Internet. Suffice it to say that it was nothing illegal, but simply something that I am ashamed of and am totally repentant of. And the cause? Video games.
I have been playing video games since the Christmas before I turned six. My dad introduced me to them. I played them hard, and when life went down the tubes I played them harder. They became my escape.
I have tried to stop playing since September. This latest incident was my scraping rock-bottom. That's right, kiddies... your sporadic game reviewer was an addict to video games, and nevermind all the BAWWWWWing on the Internet based on "Video games aren't an addiction". They are, if you're predisposed to addiction. I have actually had it confirmed by someone with a college degree in medical laboratory technology who was also quitting an addiction (smoking) that I went through clinical withdrawal after stopping playing. Seriously, how fucked up is that?
I have quit of my own volition and have now been clean 24 days now. I gave all of my games to my little brother, which changes very little since he already played most of them. I am not here to say that video games are evil. I'm not saying that everyone who plays them becomes addicted. I'm saying that after spending over two-thirds of my life playing them, I'm quitting - my only regret is that it took an incident of the magnitude that it did to finally drive me to quit.
I've given my two cents on various games. Yet never did I think that it would come to this. I'm leaving this as both a record of my opinions on video games and as a testament to an addiction as potent as tobacco or alcohol. Goodbye, Internet, and remember - we'll always have DeviantART and my main site, if I ever remember to update it.
For the last time,
Zakaroo out.
